The driver needs to be recompiled for Raspbmc, this solution will not work directly. Sorry.

Ben

having the same troubles with raspbmc

Kevin H

Hi Max, thanks for the above. Unfortunate to get the TL-WN725N V2 from Amazon, so my son was dissapointed with his birthday present – but with your help he is now happy again!

Pierre

Thanks for putting this together. I was successful in connecting to my home WPA2 personal network using your suggested edits to /etc/network/interfaces but I’m having no luck with the WPA2 enterprise network at my office.

I was hoping to use the wpa_gui “Wifi Config” tool in the desktop environment but it doesn’t see the adapter. Should it? It’s also giving me an error of “could not get wifi supplicant status”.

Any help would be appreciated!

admin

I am not sure whether the driver will work with wifi supplicant, which is probably necessary for the Wifi Config tool.
If you have added the changes we suggested to /etc/network/interfaces – wifi supplicant is not being used in it, so this may be the cause of the problem.

madquark

Hi,
when I try to update the kernel module settings *sudo depmod -a*, I get an error

It is most probably a mismatch between your kernel and this (already compiled) driver. Do you use Raspbian? Did you install the newest updates – they could have broken the driver?

madquark

Thank you for your answer.
I think I’m using the latest Raspian, updated also from Pi config screen. I’ll try with your bundled image this evening, and no updates

admin

I’ve updated the image and included instructions how to fix on updates.

http://lightcastletech.com Dan

Great article. What I needed was just the “Simple WiFi network setup”, but it was reasureing to find I had the V1 of the Edimax adapter. Good to know. Thanks!

Ed

I am using two wifi networks which are loaded from wpa_supplicant.conf. I am unsure how to handle this now, do I list both of them in the ‘interfaces’ file… Just as you have the one network shown? Before, wpa_gui would handle which network I wanted to be on. Do I have to pick just one now?
Thanks!
Ed

admin

Hello Ed,

I have not tested the adapter with wpa_supplicant.conf yet – I’m “unfortunately” very busy with day-to-day business (buying, packaging, selling). It actually might work with it (anyone out there tested with it?) with the correct settings.

An interesting alternative seems to be the application “ifscheme” which will manage two WiFi networks for you – both of which can be set up in the /etc/network/interfaces file.

Please note, that I have not tested this beyond installing ifscheme (i.e. no actual WiFi connections have been made / configuration changes). I’d be happy if you share your experiences with us about this tool.
If you need further help with this, hit me up in ca. 2 weeks from now – I should be under less pressure then, and able to run some tests for you.

Hi guys,
I only have a 4gb card (3.69gb) and the img is JUST slightly too big for me to fit on, is there any chance you can make it even slightly smaller? I only wanted to use this image with XMBC as XMBC Raspbmc doesn’t have support for this driver.
Thank you!

admin

Hi Matthew,

this image is Raspbian based, not XBMC based – the driver unfortunately needs to be recompiled for Raspbmc – even if I resized the image, you still would not get what you wanted.

We will try to release a compiled driver for Raspbmc in the next couple of weeks. Feel free to remind me, if we don’t do anything about it in 14 – 20 d.

And – sorry about the size. I know we did a quick and dirty job there

Max

Matthew

Oh no no no no, I meant that I needed it so that I could use the Raspbian version of XMBC that runs on top of raspbian but until next month I can’t get a bigger card. I’m sorry about this
When ever I try to write it to a 4gb card with Win32DiskImager I get the following error:
“Not enough space on disk: Size: 7761920 sectors Available: 7744512 sectors Sector size 512″ meaning that the .img file is 0.01gb bigger than my card capacity very frustrating

I just bought the TP-Link Wn725N and put them into my brand new RPi Modell B on bottom USB slot. The install distribution (Squeezeplug V6.02, latest OS updates) does recognize the USB as such. It even reports “wlan adapter”…
Nevertheless, when starting up, the says: could not open modules.dep.bin. The bin file is empty when browsing the file. Is there any missmatch in installing routine as describe above for Squeezeplug?

admin

I have heard of Squeezeplug for the very first time through you. The project sounds interesting, and I will look into it soon (couple of weeks). As for the installation described in this article, there has to be a perfect match to the kernel version. The driver was compile for the kernel 3.6.11+ . Please check your version with the following command: ” uname -r “. If there is a mismatch, the driver was most probably NOT correctly installed, and it can’t be used with Squeezeplug just right now. We are working to set up a crosscompiling service to release binaries for XMBC (Raspbmc, OpenELEC, …), and others.

zelg

Thanks, this was helpfull.
Originally, there is the 3.2.27+ in the build from SqueezePlug. I will update linux files. But even then, I had allready done. I got working the 3.6.11+, but then on startup: Debian is reporting issues with driver interface and “could not set wlan0″….

admin

I will look into this when we start to compile the driver. Maybe there is some other issue involved. Have you checked that your /etc/network/interfaces file has a sane setup? Maybe you should comment it out altogether, ifconfig still should show wlan0.

Friend you know if I can use the adapter TPLINK WN721N tl or multilaser nano re035

pi3g

We had the TL-WN722N working here – probably the WN-721N could work, too. I don’t know about the multilaser nano re035. In general I also would recommend Ra-Link RT5370 based devices, now (i.e. Logilink WL0084B Nano Adapter) – we are going to switch to them shortly.

pi3g

But of course there also could be several versions of those (WN-721N and TL-WN722N). I have the TL-WN722N(DE) Ver 1.0 with P/N 0152502056

If your kernel is NOT 3.6.11+, you would need to compile the driver yourself.

On a sidenote: if you are trying to install into Raspbmc, the author claims in the newest version (June update) to have achieved compatibility with v2 of the TP-Link device; In my test it did not work unfortunately, maybe I am missing something there.

That is, because the kernel version does not match the one the driver was compiled for.

3) Maybe someone else compiled this driver for Rasplex …

4) As Rasplex is OpenELEC based, and not Debian based, I’m out of my depth how to add essential building tools, sudo, etc. I quote:

” With OpenELEC it is not possible to change the system for security and stability reasons so even ‘apt-get’ would not be able to do this.
We also dont have and want to maintain such a repo for various other great reasons.”

I think I followed your instructions from a to z (checked to model & version, copied the code, …) and my dongle seems to remain invisible to my pi. (but works on a windows machine)
Any suggestions on what could be the problem ??

pi3g

paste some infos please (with the driver already installed):

lsusb

uname -v

ifconfig

bart

just to be complete: I don’t see any device popping up when using lsusb (I think) + a lot of skipping because wlan0 can’t be found

pi3g

bart, even if the device has no driver for it, it SHOULD be visible to lsusb. It might show it under a completely different ID, and without any explanation what it is – but it should show the CHIP producer’s company name (Realtek)

Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

is what it will show for me. If you have a different version (3?) it may show something different.

Double-check the way it is connected (e.g. powered hub?)

Also use
udevadm trigger
to rescan for USB devices (as root)

bart

the dongle is connected straight onto the board (could this be the problem ?)

Any ideas ? I’ll try to plug it into a powered usb hub for a change. Plugging it into a windows machine gave a satisfactory result, so the dongle is working. The box says v2.

Thanks for the help!
Bart

bart

and there it is … all fixed: just a matter of connecting it over a powered usb. Time to eat the cardboard box the dongle came in

Thanks for the active support & fully functioning driver !!

pi3g

Glad to help … and also good to know for other users out there, that the problem can be fixed by a powered USB Hub. By the way, it worked for me plugged directly into the Raspberry – it may be that your choice of PSU for the Raspberry is also important (Ampere and Voltage stability under load).

ade

Thank you! Awesome!

Simon Shaw

Many thanks indeed for this buddy! Saved my bacon!

Darin

Hi, I’m using this driver and I’ve been trying to change the MAC address for my wireless and it won’t seem to work. I’ve tried a few different methods to change it. When I use the ifconfig command like so:

The kernel has been updated since this has been written – you need to search on the Internet for the newest 8188eu driver, download and install it. Please refer to the comments on the other blog post linked from this site. I believe a user there has commented on the driver.

We have decided to abandon this project ourselves and switch to different hardware … so we can provide no further support. Sorry.